first time in pose

A student spoke up before we began class this morning, with a hopeful look on her face, eyebrows raised, Do you really practice every day? She was getting ready to go to her winter residence and hoping I’d let her off … Continued

Life is beautiful. There's treasure in every moment-treasure you may overlook unless you are aware of the impermanence of everything.

Steve Ross HAPPY YOGA 'You Were Never Born and You Will Never Die'

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Indeed, when a group, a path, a teacher, a practice, or a community begin to see themselves as having 'the perfect way,' it is a sure sign that reality testing has been impaired.

Stephen Cope YOGA AND THE QUEST FOR THE TRUE SELF 'To the Mountaintop'

“One must first of all concentrate one’s thoughts on an object. Once one’s mind achieves a state of concentration and the space between oneself and the object has disappeared, the essential nature of the object can be perceived. Then express it immediately. If one ponders it, it will vanish from the mind.”

MATSUO BASHO 'Learn From the Pine'

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in.